Your favorite collections

In a recent post on short stories, one my local booksellers (hi, Amy!) said her store would put up an end-cap display of collections, and would take suggestions for which collections could be interesting. So I’ve decided to ask here, where many of the people who visit this journal are readers and writers of short stories, what collections of stories you’d include in that display.

The Man From the Diogenes Club + The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club – Kim Newman

High Lonesome: Selected Short Stories 1966-2006 – Joyce Carol Oates

St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever – James Tiptree, Jr.

Innocents Abroad + Starwater Strains – Gene Wolfe

A few I would have suggested already have been; there are some really good suggestions already. My problem – as someone mentioned above – is trying to get away from all the out of print collections I’d happily recommend without reservation. Anyway, all of the above were published in the last couple of years, and, I’d like to think, are all still in print.

The Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford
The Emporium by Adam Johnson
The Mother Garden by Robin Romm
Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder
Red Ant House by Anne Cummins
Things That Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier
Bad Haircut by Tom Perrotta
Plus part of Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling or his A Good Old Fashioned Future
Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Club +The All-Girl Football Team by Lewis Nordan
In the Palace of Repose by Holly Phillips
Love in Vain by Lewis Shiner
Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
The Light at the End of the Universe by Terry Carr (if it’s still available)
Maybe I would like to hide some of them from the public eyes. Those are my treasure.

Yoshio, I love your list! We have the same taste in short stories! The only other person that I personally know who has read Lewis Nordan is Kelly Link. I absolutely LOVE his stories. And I just read Robin Romm’s collection “The Mother Garden” last month. It was wonderful.

Hi Yoshio and Scott and Chris,
Thanks for reading the Mother Garden, all. I’m so happy you liked it. Chris – sorry I fell off the face of the earth. I did read One For Sorrow. What an odd and beautiful story. I’ll write more to you soon.
And I loved Scott’s book, Voodoo Heart.
Also, I’m into Gina Berriault these days. “The Stone Boy” is one of my favorite stories. And of course, everything by Flannery O’Connor and Andre Dubus.